Latasha Morgan, Director of After School Programs, Harlem Children’s Zone

Partnership: Partnership Day-to-day Management and Decision-making

Overview

A webinar series hosted by Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink, you'll learn about

Management structures, processes and tools useful in working with partners

Aligning multiple components: managing complex interactions within and across organizations and communities, and using what you learn to adapt and refine your approach

Creating a culture of performance and accountability within the lead agency and across partners for successful management

Host:

Bill Shepardson, Center for the Study of Social Policy

Guests:

Theresa Fujiwara, Strategy & Policy Advisor at the White Center Community Development Association and former Making Connections site liaison,

Anne Williams-Isom, Chief Operating Officer, Harlem Children’s Zone

Erica Terrell, Program Director, Harlem Children’s Zone

Community Engagement: Strategic Ways to Engage the Community: Working with Families and Communities to Improve Outcomes for Children

Overview

A webinar series hosted by Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink, you'll learn about how family and community engagement in education is a shared responsibility in which schools and other community organizations engage families in meaningful ways, and in which families are committed to actively supporting their children’s learning and development is effective when it is continuous from birth to young adulthood, and occurs across multiple settings where children learn.

Host:

Kay Fernandez Smith, PolicyLink

Guests:

Sarah Jonas, The Children’s Aid Society National Center for Community Schools

Marlene Fox, Harlem Children’s Zone

Kaaryn Nailor, Harlem Children’s Zone

Community Engagement: Developing Leadership Capacity Within the Community

Overview

A webinar series hosted by Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink, you'll learn how to to engage residents and develop community leaders, know best what’s needed in the community, lend legitimacy and credibility to local efforts, have staying power, have important strengths to contribute and can help hold parties accountable for results.

Host:

Cheryl Rogers, Consultant

Guests:

Nilofer Ahsan, Center for the Study of Social Policy

Marlene Fox, Harlem Children’s Zone

Kaaryn Nailor, Harlem Children’s Zone

Finance & Sustainability: Program Financing for Sustainability

Overview

A webinar series hosted by Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink, you'll learn how to develop a strategic financing plan to sustain your community's work and increase its impact:

Understanding the array of resources that need to be mobilized for sustainability

Finance & Sustainability: Program Growth and Development

Overview

A webinar series hosted by Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink, you'll learn how to create a strategic business plan that is clear about how many children and families must be served over time to achieve desired results, based on a set of assumptions about how interventions will be expanded over time, estimates naturally escalating and new programs costs for staff and infrastructure, presents costs in different ways (e.g., by result area, intervention, cost per participant, etc.) and estimates short and long term funding gaps

Host:

Kate Shoemaker, Harlem Children's Zone

Guests:

Michael Etzel, Bridgespan

Tracey K. Costello, Harlem Children’s Zone

Margo Wright, Harlem Children’s Zone

Lauren Scopaz, Harlem Children’s Zone

Data: Gathering and Using Data for Needs Assessment and Segmentation Analysis

Data: Designing a Longitudinal Data System

Overview

A webinar series hosted by Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink, you'll learn about a model to developing a platform for community data sharing and use Strategies for Addressing FERPA and HIPAA when designing a longitudinal data system

Data: Using Data for Planning, Implementation, and Community Accountability

Overview

A webinar series hosted by Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink, you'll learn about using data for program improvement, building capacity to increase accountability in a diverse community collaborative and results-based accountability that helps leaders and organizations plan; choose realistic, goals; implement effective strategies; and identify clear benchmarks by which to measure success.